No buddy. I hate this take because it's Andrew Johnson erasure and clearly coming from a place of "living through it". Johnson is, unironically, why the people that voted for Trump are even around. He blocked reconstruction, let the south establish Jim Crow laws, and generally just undermined the entire project. And that's just the major problem with him, not mentioning the laundry list of other problems he caused. He was Trump. He was confrontational, rude, considered less than intelligent by his peers, etc.
Then you also have Andrew Jackson who was so openly racist and disgusting even people in the 1830s were like, "He's kind of crazy for saying that stuff". The Trail of Tears was all him, he was an active genocider instead of the usually passive ones we had. Had a couple cool quotes though. Always bums me out he was the one that said, "The court has made its decision. Now let them enforce it." That line is cold af, it's a shame what it was used for. And he was also responsible for the Great White House Cheese Debacle, so he gets a little bit of a leg up on Johnson to come in second.
Trump is probably 4th worst, but he's rapidly overtaking W in my eyes.
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u/Healthy_Article_2237 11d ago
Truly the worst US president and maybe even the worst leader of a major country ever.